6th March 2007, 11:03 PM
FOX! Trust your instincts!
<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chess_enlightenment.png">
Instincts are for hunting buffalo in packs and taking care of the younglings. They don't seem well adapted to ANYTHING we actually do today. Fortunatly, they can be overwritten like any other data in the brain. Fortunatly, the brain doesn't bother checking it's own DNA to rewrite that code right back in. Data only matters if it's accessed.
On another note, instincts didn't get me through Star Fox.
I love video games. All those in game stories about the important of following the heart and instincts and believing in one's self, and the harder games utterly disprove those very lessons in favor of logically disseminating a system and determining the best way to work within it. I never "believed" my way out of 4 simultaneous ultima spells on my level 20 characters, but I sure did strategize my way out of it!
Where are all those stories saying "SCREW your heart, it's just a blood pump!"?
<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chess_enlightenment.png">
Instincts are for hunting buffalo in packs and taking care of the younglings. They don't seem well adapted to ANYTHING we actually do today. Fortunatly, they can be overwritten like any other data in the brain. Fortunatly, the brain doesn't bother checking it's own DNA to rewrite that code right back in. Data only matters if it's accessed.
On another note, instincts didn't get me through Star Fox.
I love video games. All those in game stories about the important of following the heart and instincts and believing in one's self, and the harder games utterly disprove those very lessons in favor of logically disseminating a system and determining the best way to work within it. I never "believed" my way out of 4 simultaneous ultima spells on my level 20 characters, but I sure did strategize my way out of it!
Where are all those stories saying "SCREW your heart, it's just a blood pump!"?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)